In the building, the contradictions and tensions of Istanbul society - immigrants, minorities, the marginalized, and the insane: a university professor; Twins run a barbershop; A pious man with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, a woman obsessed with cleanliness and her hooded daughter; And the "Blue Mistress"...But the novel "The Palace of Sweets" is, above all, a novel about social injustice, the fear of losing identity, the dominance of fate over the destinies of the characters, and the game of love that condemned confused souls to death.